The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-20
assumed name of johnson. and when the

assumed name of johnson, and when the
steamer was transferred to the Confederate
flag off the lonely island of Las Desertas,
one OF the MadeiraS, he was the first man of
the ostensibly British crew to step forward
at the summons of Capt. Waddell and ell
roll his name for service on the Confederate
man-of-war Shenandoah. Waddell issued to
him warrant as q petty officer, and he
stood as high as any man ON board the ship
outside the wardroOm and cabin
The Shenandoah ran down TO Australia,
and thence steamed up the Pacific to the
nigh Northern ATTITUDES. She inflicted more
damage upon the commerce of the United
States than any Confederate cruiser, except
the Alabama, and in the boat parties that
set fire to her many prizes Francis Turner
was a conspicuous figure. Towards the end
OF May, 1865, she was North of the Aleutian
Islands, and had struck some of the New
England whalers who were working into the
Ohkotsk sea and the Arctic ocean
Having been severed from communication
with either the Asiatic or American Con-
tinent for three months Capt. Waddell
or the occupation of Richmond by the
Union army, and SO continued his career of
devastation.
HOW THE BROTHERS MET.
On June 2S, 1865, coming out of Behring's
Straits, the Shenandoah captured and
burned eight American whaling ships. That
far Northern sea and its floating fields of ice
were illuminated by the flames of the inn
mense conflagration, for the prizes had been
closely huddled, and their oil-saturated bulls
burned fiercely while their spars and rigging
made fiery tracery against the dull back
ground of the Arctic sky
One of the doomed ships was the New
Bedford Waverley, and the boat commits
stoned to take the prisoners from her and
to apply the torch was in command of
Francis Turner.
The boat was loaded almost down to her
gunwaleS, and in returning through the
heavy sea to the Shenandoah q prisoner
went overheard in one of the lurches that
she made. Coxswain Turner hauled him in
over the stern, and as they came face to
face the rescued man fixed an inquisitive look
upon the face of the coxswain.
Huddled under a thwart, and covered
with coats to keep from freezing, he said
nothing then. But when the prisoners were
mustered on the deck of the Shenandoah and
required to give their names, he answered
loudly, John Turner, of New Orleans "
Francis Turner who was among the crew
clustered on the starboard side of the main
deck, sprang forward as the name was
given, but naval discipline restrained him
from interfering with the roll-cau. The
reunion of the brothers took place later in
the day.
John Turner enlisted as a seaman of the
Shenandoah, and the brothers were in the
same watch, when a month later the ship
made down the California coast and obtained
from passing Englishman information of
the downfall of the Confederate government.
He then headed for Liverpool, where she
was surrendered TO the British authorities,
and eventually transferred to the United
States
On the arrival at Liverpool the reporters
and correspondents Of British newspapers
were busy in interviewing her officers
and crew, and among the many narratives
they obtained was that of the adventures
of the Turner brothers which was printed
in the Liverpool Mercury, and in papers
published at Newcastle and Leeds.